 ... yet such an excessive humility, as if he had known nothing, that they frequently resorted and dwelt with him, as in a college situated in a purer air ; so that his house was a university in a less volume ; whither they came not so much for repose...  Society and Solitude: Twelve Chapters - 109. oldalszerző: Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870 - 300 oldalTeljes nézet - Információ erről a könyvről
 | Edward Hyde Earl of Clarendon - 1849 - 584 oldal
...air ; so that his house was a university bound in a less volume ; whither they came not so much for repose as study, and to examine and refine those grosser...laziness and consent made current in vulgar conversation. 331 Many attempts were made upon him by the instigation of his mother (who was a lady of another persuasion... | |
 | Henry Wright Phillott - 1849 - 224 oldal
...purer air ; so that his house was a university in a less volume ; whither they came not so much for repose as study ; and to examine and refine those...laziness and consent made current in vulgar conversation. History of the RAdlion, book vii. Iv. Goring, who was now General of the Horse, was no more gracious... | |
 | Edward Hyde Earl of Clarendon - 1849 - 570 oldal
...air ; so that his house was a university bound in a less volume ; whither they came not so much for repose as study, and to examine and refine those grosser...laziness and consent made current in vulgar conversation. 221 Many attempts were ma'de upon him by the instigation of his mother (who was a lady of another persuasion... | |
 | James Boswell - 1851 - 322 oldal
...accurate men, so that his honse was an university in less volume, whither they came, not so much for repose as study, and to examine and refine those grosser...propositions, which laziness and consent made current in conversation." pressed his thoughts with great force, and an elegant choice of language, the effect... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1852 - 592 oldal
...in a less volume, to which they came not so much for repose as for study, and to examine and reform those grosser propositions, which laziness and consent made current in vulgar conversation. " He was superior to all those passions and affections which attend vulgar minds, and was guilty of... | |
 | Richard Cattermole - 1852 - 412 oldal
...in apurer air: so that his house was a university in a less volume, whither they came not so much to repose as study, and to examine and refine those grosser propositions which laziness and content made current in vulgar conversation. . . He was guilty of no other ambition than of knowledge,... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1858 - 780 oldal
...purer air ; so that his house was a university in a less volume, whither they came not so much for repose as study ; and to examine and refine those...laziness and consent made current in vulgar conversation * He was superior to all those passions and affections which attend vulgar minds, and was guilty of... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1859 - 780 oldal
...purer air ; so that his house was a university in a less volume, whither they came not so much for repose as study ; and to examine and refine those grosser propositions, which laziness and made him too much a contemner of those arts, which must be indulged in the transactions of human affairs.... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1860 - 766 oldal
...purer air ; so that his house was a university in a less volume, whither they came riot so much for repose as study ; and to examine and refine those...laziness and consent made current in vulgar conversation * * * He was superior to all those passions and affections which attend vulgar minds, and was guilty... | |
 | John Murray (Firm) - 1860 - 292 oldal
...so that his house was a university in a less volume, whither they came not so much for repose as for study, and to examine and refine those grosser propositions...and consent made current in vulgar conversation." — Clarendon, b. vii. The ch., which has a beautiful fringed door of late Norm., an Б. Е. porch,... | |
| |
